https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/fd4f096b-3b01-4ec7-b777-041bfb7fbd05 Browse our products on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YILTSD Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This 1943 black and white film installment of The Army-Navy Screen Magazine, a bi-weekly short film series shown to military personnel documents a Command Performance radio transcription recording of the Armed Forces Radio Network (AFRS) featuring Bob Hope, Betty Hutton, Lana Turner, and Judy Garland that was transmitted by shortwave radio to troops overseas during World War II (TRT: 12:45). Title card: Command Performance U.S.A. Strictly G.I.” The AFRS band plays a rousing fanfare. An announcer speaks at a radio microphone (0:10). Young women sort fan mail from enlisted men (0:37). An audio recording is mastered to a rotating vinyl disc by an engineer with headphones (0:48). Bob Hope takes the stage wearing a pinstripe suit. He jokes, “Crimea doesn’t pay” and says he’s getting the award of the “purple callous” (1:11). Hope introduces Betty Hutton, who takes the stage wearing black bows in her hair and speaks into a CBS radio microphone. Betty and Bob exchange lines (a splice occurs) (2:00). Betty Hutton performs “Murder, He Says” (2:42). Betty Hutton leaves the stage. Bob Hope introduces Lana Turner, fulfilling a written request to have her fry a steak on the air (5:05). Reading from a script, Lana Turner zings Hope. She calls, “Bring on the Porterhouse steak!” (5:58). G.I.’s in helmets emerge from the wings with a steak. Turner holds it up with a fork, then puts it on a griddle to sizzle. “Fellas, I wish I could cook a big steak for each and every one of you” (6:46). Bob Hope introduces “that lovely sweater girl” Judy Garland (7:45). Judy Garland appears, wearing a black sequined dress, and patiently sets Hope up for a gag about sweater girls (8:09). Judy Garland sings “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (8:30). Garland in Closeup (9:20). Images of radio towers crossfade over one another. Titles: “Africa, Alaska, South Pacific, Europe, China, Middle East” over the radio towers (10:35). Judy Garland takes a bow and leaves the stage. Bob Hope sings a light comic number thanking the U.S. Armed Forces and Allies (11:13). A recording of the radio “transcription for troops” is put into a shipping box, “U.S. Gov’t Property, Must Go Thru, Urgent! Keep From Heat.” A label: “Fragile! From War Department, Radio Records” with a return address of 1421 North Western Ave., Los Angeles, California (12:18). Title card: “Army-Navy Screen Magazine, The End” (12:28). Installments of Army-Navy Screen Magazine generally included a newsreel and a “Private Snafu” cartoon. At least 50 such films were produced under the supervision of director Frank capra, of which this film was #20. This particular film was likely recorded at CBS Columbia Square, CBS’ Los Angeles radio studio at 6121 Sunset Blvd. We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv4rUhD1xd0 Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:11:20 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/fd4f096b-3b01-4ec7-b777-041bfb7fbd05 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.